Death is like thunder in two particulars, we are alarmed at the sound of it, and it is formidable only from that which has prceded it. (Charles Caleb Colton)

Death is like thunder in two particulars, we are alarmed at the sound of it, and it is formidable only from that which has prceded it.

Charles Caleb Colton

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